Word: restaurante
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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This time, Duarte M. "Duke" Carvalho, the franchisee of the new store, exploited a loophole in the city code to open the new restaurant in the area recently vacated by the Left Bank Cafe.
The new franchise was able to open because of the existence of a previous fast food restaurant on the site. Such establishments were allowed to continue operating when the city passed the Fast Food Ordinances, a series of regulations restricting the access of fast food restaurants to the Square.
Cardullo said that when the restaurant closed it would affect the community.
"They're losing a great restaurant," Cardullo said. "They're losing a good man, too, in my father."
"As far as the restaurant closing," Cardullo said, "it's the end of an era.